Word: microcosm
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...photos surfaced. Race, creed, age, all have clouded the show. But like the winner at the moment of coronation--brandishing a mile-wide smile as she sobs on the edge of both the runway and hysteria--the pageant proves that pretty can be messy. It serves as a kitsch microcosm of a conflicted country. Miss America is America...
Within your group there will be a microcosm ofwhat's best among human life on earth. You canmost enjoy this if you're focused on yourclassmates, not on what they represent in relationto yourself...
...believer firmly in what [former Harvard] President [A. Lawrence] Lowell said, to make each house a microcosm of the College," said Quincy House Master Michael Shinagele...
When President Lowell funded the house system in the 1930s, he hoped that every house would be a microcosm of the College...
...Saturday a skirmish erupted in Sarajevo that was a microcosm of the escalating confrontation. At 4:30 a.m., two Bosnian Serbs disguised as French peacekeepers, complete with blue helmets and flak jackets, infiltrated a U.N. observation post on the Vrbanja bridge and spearheaded the Serbs' capture of the post -- and 12 French U.N. prisoners. Four hours later, a platoon of French troops responded in the first-ever combat engagement for territory between Serbian and U.N. soldiers, recapturing one end of the bridge. In the process, two French soldiers and four Bosnian Serbs were killed...